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Dear Sugar Letter #21

Dear Sugar Letter #21

The Golden Truth

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Dear Sugar,

Twenty-three years ago, my then-husband and I decided to become parents through a sperm donor because he had been rendered infertile due to testicular cancer. I delivered our wonderful triplets a year later, two weeks after graduating from law school. My husband and I decided that we were not going to d…

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